Basic Amount

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or amount:

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.

“One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)